I get that this is one of their jokes, to get attention and for fun. But it would be great if Gboard itself was open source though. I could do a ton of improvements for myself at least. I love the slide / swipe typing gesture input mode in Gboard but it's needlessly closed source. There could be big privacy improvements and great features added. Maybe AnySoftKeyboard is good enough now, I'll check again.
What's stopping you from taking the keyboard from AOSP as a base and applying all your cool features on top?
GP specifically called out (Swype-style) slide-typing, which is indeed not in the AOSP keyboard.
I'm working on a keyboard. What improvements would you make?
When I start typing a string that begins with "https://", disable autocorrect/auto capitalization. It gets frustrating having to fight the keyboard any time you type a url.
Use it in GrapheneOS and block its Internet access completely to solve your privacy complains.
Also check out the "promo" video for this https://youtu.be/EHqPrHTN1dU
Google Japan has a long history of making joke keyboards like this. The linear one is one of my favorites.
extremely niche internet humor and im all here for it
Just to clarify are you talking about the lllong longgg single row keyboard?
Yes: https://g.co/____
Would love to see they tie it up to https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6-1Ue0FFrHY
False advertising.
This thing is only single-sided!
and, topologically speaking, it's equivalent to a coffee cup!
is it? isn’t a coffee cup equivalent to a torus? which is not equivalent to a mobius strip
Because of the handle, you mean?
Their iOS app for Gboard has been abandoned for more than two years despite frequent crashes. I've tried to move off of it multiple times, but nothing yet seems to match its swipe to text or autocomplete/autocorrect suggestions.
The "official" landing page from where this GitHub page is linked: g.co/double-sided = https://landing.google.co.jp/double-sided/ (the video is amazing, and many of the jokes carry over from Japanese in the English subtitles)
Slightly related: Does anyone know of a simple macropad that uses 2u or larger keys? I just want 4 or so larger keys!
This is a Moebius strip. It's technically NOT double sided.
Is that not the joke?
Oh wow; everything needed to build the linear keyboard...
https://github.com/google/mozc-devices/blob/master/mozc-bar/...
Meanwhile, there were two other Googlers who won Nobel Prizes.
This this is do good. Solves the issue for backend development
Not that Gboard it seems